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Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Tired in Qingdao

Forgive possibly the shortest ever post to my blog, but 30+ hours of travelling and three flights later...missing a grad student, I arrived in Qingdao (China) at 10:30pm local time.

Brandon, a graduate student of Peter Dodson's (who I also help torture on the ins and outs of palaeontology) missed his flight...somewhere on the east coast of the USA. I await his arrival in the morning...he will be pretty tired by then!

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Dr Phil Manning

Dr. Phil Manning is Professor of Natural History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ancient Life (www.ical.manchester.ac.uk) at the University of Manchester (UK) and is
also a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History (New York)
and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). In January 2014 he was elected a
Fellow of the Explorer’s Club. Dr. Manning’s research is both broad and interdisciplinary
with active research topics including: biomechanics, geochemistry and elemental
analysis (particularly specialising in synchrotron-based imaging techniques),
application of LiDAR-based imaging to both landscape and skeletal modelling, high-performance
computing work, mechanical analysis of biomaterials (both extant and extinct),
finite element analysis and imaging. Dr. Manning and his team have worked
extensively in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota and Montana, but their
field program also includes sites in South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Cayman Islands.

Dr. Manning plays an active role in science outreach,
contributing to open-days, lectures, workshops, fieldwork, etc. He has authored
both children and popular science books and is a regular contributor to public
speaking programs around the world, promoting the public engagement of science.
In 2013 Dr. Manning was appointed as the Science and Technology Research
Council (STFC) Science in Society Fellow, so as to promote science and
technology to as wide an audience as possible.